Cite the bite


The crown
      this sceptred isle;
      the rotten topi,
      rattle of the drumroll.
      Execution of
      democracy.


      Imperial tread,
      slow march reaches
      the tendrils
      of the bunny
      in myxomatosis.


      Skinned
      to the image;
      of interference.
      This disease
      of killing.


      Careless slaughter
      within; of those
      discarded and
      neglected.
      by the bevelled
      trident


      It strikes
      the perceived snake
      farther afield.


      The toes echo
      dread footfall,
      the flattened vomit.